Chasing Sheep - L

A few more days have passed here on the banks of the Hardangerfjord, but the pace of things has been nice and relaxing. The weather has been very agreeable, perhaps a wee bit chilly, but generally quite sunny. It's been really nice to work outside on Jacintha's Hen Palace, but I think we'll give it a few more days before we share pictures of the work we've done with it. ^.^ Friday we got our first experience with ice cream making and the flavor of the day was raspberry sorbet (there has also been a lot of homemade raspberry jam around lately...yum!). The process and ingredients really aren't very complicated, but it's a lot of fun to work with an industry grade ice cream freezing machine! Especially when it comes to taste testing. My favorite part was licking the leftover sorbet off of a mixing blade the size of my chest. Delicious. And no additives!

Here's a picture of the barn we milk in and the more recently constructed ice cream factory. Inside that little window are the chicken. Plans were made for the chickens to exit through the window and walk down the plank ramps there to the grass, but I guess these chicken's were too "chicken" and it didn't work out. Also around the farm are these turkeys!

There were two turkey chicks, hidden at the feet of the mum in this picture, but something got them... It might be the cats. 15 whole ducklings have dissapeared within the few days we've been here as well. Eric and I never got to see them waddling along after their mother which I find very dissapointing.



And oh yes! The sheep chasing! It was really thrilling for the whole 10 minutes it lasted, but unfortunately most of the sheep that had invaded the cow pasture from the neighboring field made it back over the fence themselves somehow. They only left one of their number behind and as she seemed to have several loudly bleating lambs across the fence it didn't take too much chasing to get her back to them for a little sheep reunion. Kind of a bummer really.

Tomorrow is our day off and we're a going hiking! Stay tuned!